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SwissPhO 2017 - Results

Aarau - At the Swiss Physics Olympiad the best young talents in Physics were chosen. The competition took place the weekend of march 25th and 26th. The 28 finalists prepared themselves during the months since the Preliminary Round, tackling a wide range of Physics questions. One great opportunity was the training weekend that took place at EPFL. Everybody had a lot of fun exchanging ideas with other participants that are equally interested in Physics as they are.

The exam questions the participants had to solve were quite challenging. They had to show their knowledge and skills solving theoretical questions and and an interesting experiment. To succeed they had to work patiently and precisely. For the experiment the teenagers had to find the coefficient of friction of a string on a rod. They had to interpret the results and to show that the friction increases exponentially with the angle between the first and the last spot the string touches the rod.

The five gold medalists will form the Swiss team at the International Physics Olympiad 2017 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Additionally Julius Vering and Adrian Rutschmann were awarded with the special prize for the best junior physicist offered by the Swiss Physical Society. These prizes were handed over at the ceremony in the Neue Kantonsschule Aarau.

Additionally we encourage all the candidates to participate next year again. The experience you gained this year will definitely give you an advantage next year. Note that we are going to introduce a new preliminary round which will start around August 2017. More information will be published on our web page.